The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939–1945
Rachel Brenner is the very capable author of Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust. Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum (1997). There, she examined the ways in which beleaguered Jewish writers explored Jewishness, the nature of God, and the challenges of being b...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 510-511 |
| Review of: | The ethics of witnessing (Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014) (Fritzsche, Peter)
The ethics of witnessing (Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014) (Fritzsche, Peter) |
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| Summary: | Rachel Brenner is the very capable author of Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust. Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum (1997). There, she examined the ways in which beleaguered Jewish writers explored Jewishness, the nature of God, and the challenges of being both a woman and an outcast during the Holocaust. She has now written a fascinating inquiry into the almost unbearable pressure to which the disaster subjected individuals’ sense of empathy. She does so through a consideration of five important Polish writers who kept diaries during the German occupation and who witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv059 |